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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

We Chat.. The New Communication Tool

Recently I signed up for the Sponsored Review program onBlogadda, and I am glad that I did. The first product I was shortlisted to
review 'WeChat' on my blog which is an amazing app that is available for
free to download from their website http://www.wechatapp.com.
This communication tool, about which I had not heard before, supports my HTC Wildfire
S Android mobile very well, allowing me to send voice, video, photos and text
messages without any hassle from my mobile. Though I have been using Skype to
chat with friends through my PC, the app had failed to work on my mobile.

WeChat includes Features like:

• Voice
Messaging

• Shake

• Look
Around

• Drift
Bottle

• Facebook
Connect

• Emoticons

• Group
Chat

As there is no restriction on distance, this allows me to
chat with my friends who I have not called up in months due to the high call
costs. All I did was log in through my facebook account and I could just start
a demo chat with Rayyan who was helping me check the app from the next room.

The excellent Social Messaging App claims to have 200
million users’ worldwide across 24 countries, in addition it is the only app to
offer Video/Audio calling and voice messaging for free. The app supports 17
languages including English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and others. It also
supports all different types of mobile platforms like iOS, Android, Symbian (V3
& V5) and Windows. Unfortunately the
option is not yet available for Blackberry phones.

The new version of WeChat (4.3) supports Video and Audio
calling so that we talk to friends and family face to face. It also supports Web
WeChat which allows us to use the app from PC through the browser. It also
comes with additional features like Push-to-Talk Voice Messaging, Group
Chat-text & voice (up to 40 people) and Location based friend-discovery
social features. WeChat also offers
engaging one-on-one and group chat sessions with an extensive range of animated
and custom emoticon and emoji art, customizable backgrounds, and a
Rock-Paper-Scissors mini-game.

The app allows user to apply artistic filters to photos and share
with friends on chat and Moments wall instantly. In addition with this open
API, WeChat users will able to allow user share photo, music, video, games,
news and other kind of social content from other third party Application
plug-ins without hassle.

The app also provides a secure and robust social networking
platform that emphasizes user privacy and fast response performance, as well as
it protects user data by offering on-demand contact list backup and retrieval
to/from our cloud-based service.

One of the unique features that caught my attention was the
Shake interface. All we had to do is shake our phones together to connect which
was fun. With the feature Shake users can exchange contact information with
nearby WeChat users, or connect with WeChat users worldwide to make new
friends. It also enables users to discover WeChat users nearby through the
feature Look Around.

This comes with so many additional features than Nimbuzz,
Truphone or Fring which do not support video/audio messaging on my mobile
phone.

It is time for me to ask my friends to connect with me
through WeChat. I just hope the audio and video feature will not be abused
where even mere acquaintances will start sending me audio and video messages in
place of text messages which is socially considerate.